Welcome... Haere Mai

Tēnā
koutou, Tēnā koutou, Tēnā koutou katoa

A warm welcome to you
all on behalf of the Board of Trustees and staff of Katikati College. We
look forward to working with you in 2018 to ensure the year brings success and
achievement to your child/children. I would like to take
this opportunity to encourage you all to take an active role in your child’s
education and learning journey. The importance of family and whānau in the learning
partnership cannot be stressed enough.

A
few important changes to note:

On
Thursday mornings from 8:10 – 9:10am our staff will be undertaking Professional
Learning and Development. This change is to provide our bus students with
the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities, as well as to
allow our teachers more time to improve the quality of the learning programmes
we offer. Our school groups will be supervised by staff from 8:10 until
9:10am. Then,
from 9.10 until 9.50am on Thursdays we will have School Assemblies.
There will be no period 1 on Thursdays and period 2 will start at 9:50am.

Uniform
rules
and expectations will be strongly enforced from the beginning of this year.
The school will provide students with uniform items to wear during the
day if they do not have them. We will not be issuing uniform passes at all.
All items that are not school uniform will be removed from the student
and returned at the end of the week. Please support the college in our
efforts to improve expectations and consistently apply College rules. We
welcome any donations of second hand uniform to support this. A uniform
review will be completed in the first part of this year and we will consult our
community as part of this review.

We
will continue to have high expectations of student behaviour and
participation in our learning community in order to ensure a positive,
predictable, consistent and safe learning environment for all.

If
you have any comments, ideas or suggestions on how we can better meet the needs
of our students and community please share them using our Community Suggestion
Box on
the College Website.

Latest News & Upcoming Events

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ARC at Katikati College

“ARC stands for Aspiration, Responsibility & Citizenship. It underpins everything we do, everywhere at Katikati College. ARC helps improve the behaviour of all students at our school because we are very clear about what our expectations are, and we teach and learn these expectations. We recognise students when they meet these expectations and give appropriate consequences when they are not met. ARC is for everybody – students and staff alike.”

The Air Force are doing an Air Show Spectacular Parachute Jump over the Katikati College back field at 10:30am Friday 2nd November.

There will be 9 Air Force parachutists jumping and they will have coloured smoke and flags as they practice their Air Show manoeuvres. All public are welcome to join the junior school to watch this event. The parachutists will mingle and talk to anyone after safely landing.

Please be ready for the jump at 10:25am under the trees against the classrooms on the back field or anywhere around the edge. Kindly stay clear of the centre.

The PPTA have notified the school of a paid union meeting on Tuesday, November 20. School will close at 12.20.The buses will leave at the normal time and the College will supervise any students unable to be picked up. Closer to this time we will ask parents/ whānau to confirm which students will need to be supervised.

Help save people's lives by donating your blood! Katikati College is hosting a blood drive with the New Zealand Blood donors in the school hall on Monday 24th September. To sign up come to A7 (Miss McDonald's room) on Thursday 13th September at interval and lunchtime or Friday 14th at interval. When you sign up you will receive an information sheet and we will check if you are eligible to donate blood. Please donate your blood to help others.

Please note that the school office will close at 3.05 p.m. on Friday July 6 and will re-open at 8.00 a.m. on Monday July 23 and that Monday July 23, which is the first day of Term 3, will be a Teacher Only Day.

Please make a note that parent teacher interviews will be held on Thursday June 14, with Year 7 and 8 interviews being from 2.00 - 6.00 p.m and Years 9 to 13 from 4.00 - 6.00 p.m. More details will be shared closer to the date.